Marie Curie Marie Curie was born Maria Sklowdaska on November 7th‚ 1867. She was the fifth and youngest child in her family. Times were tough living in the Russian parition of Poland‚ and her family suffered many financial hardships. She attended school and graduated as Valedictorian‚ but all the years of stress lead up to a sort of breakdown‚ and she had to spend some time away from home with her uncle until she felt less depressed. Soon‚ she was ready for higher education. However‚ being a woman
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Toni Morrison: Changing The Game Author Toni Morrison shaped the culture of writing in three main areas; she garnered attention and award of the Nobel Prize society‚ she captured minds of reading audiences in a way that other black authors had not‚ and she gave a voice to difficult subject matters that has been followed by modern authors. The following from one of her novels gives good example of her journey; “You can’t do it all. You a woman and a colored woman at that. You can’t act like a man
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The Paris Peace Accords of 1973‚ intended to establish peace in Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam ‚ officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ‚ is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north‚ Laos to the northwest‚ Cambodia to the southwest‚ and the South China Sea‚ referred to as East Sea ‚ to the east... and an end to the Vietnam Conflict‚ ended direct U.S. military involvement and temporarily stopped the fighting between north and
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was the 1962 Nobel Prize Winner and in his speech he had many connections to one of his famous books‚ Of Mice and Men. He talked about the hard times that humanity had faced such as the Great Depression‚ World War 2‚ Korean war‚ and Civil Rights movements. In these times humans started to do non human like things to survive. Steinbeck has lived through both the highs and lows of humanity‚ and the time between the publishment of the book Of Mice and Men to the acceptance of his Nobel Prize‚ was a
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usion Robert Koch was one of the most educated scientist in 1905 because of his studies over the years he worked in a lab. Robert Koch was born on december 11‚ 1843 and he was born into a poor mining family. But in 1866 Robert got married to Emmy Fraatz and two years lIntroduction “The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease” -Robert koch. Robert Koch was one of the most educated scientists of 1905. Body Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch or Robert Koch was born on December
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two-time Nobel Prize winner whose work led to the discovery of radioactivity. Learn more on Biography.com. BBC - History - Marie Curie www.bbc.co.uk/.../curie_marie.shtml British Broadcasting Corporation Read a short biography about Marie Curie. Follow her life story from birth‚ to her marriage to Pierre Curie‚ and the reasons why she was awarded two Nobel ... Marie Curie - Facts - Nobelprize.org www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/.../marie-curie-facts.html Nobel Prize
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A holocaust survivor and an outstanding writer a Nobel peace prize winner all I’m one! He was a Romanian American Jewish writer. He was an holocaust survivor. He had three sisters and a mom and a dad both his parents and little sister died in the holocaust leaving him and his two older sisters the only survivors from his family. Elie Wiesel encouraged hope in the face of fear through his works ¨Never Will I Forget¨‚ ¨Nobel Peace Prize Speech¨‚ and one of his untitled poems. One of Wiesel’s
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tics Antibiotics Several scientists around the beginning of the 20th Century discovered substances that were toxic to bacteria yet not to the human cell. But it wasn’t until Sir Alexander Flemings own discovery in 1928 that everyone took notice. While washing his equipment‚ Sir Fleming noticed a bit of mold attacking a patch of bacteria. It’s frightening to consider how many more people would have died in the 20th Century if Sir Fleming did not have good eyes. Today‚ some complain that
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change some of these stereotypes and took a huge step in the history of women. Marie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize‚ and the only woman to win two nobel prizes in two different fields: chemistry and physics. Being such a good influence‚ Marie taught her daughters‚ Irene and Eve‚ to be determined. Her oldest Daughter Irene followed in her mother’s footsteps and won a nobel prize. Ongoing with Marie’s achievements‚ she also was the first women to teach at the Sorbonne University‚ and the
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golden city of El Dorado‚ he failed to locate the city. Two other notable people mentioned in the chapter are the chemists and Nobel laureates‚ Svante Arrhenius and Fritz Haber. In one of the stories told in this chapter‚ the Nazis were oppressing the Jewish scientists and were confiscating all of their gold. Unfortunately‚ the Nobel prize medals were made of gold‚ and so‚ two Nobel laureates‚ Max von Laue and James Franck‚ had Niels Bohr keep their
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